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Harley MS 3403
- Record Id:
- 040-002049234
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002049234
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x00034f
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 3403
- Title:
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Commissione of the doge Leonardo Loredan to Francesco Barbarigo as podestà and captain of Feltre
- Scope & Content:
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This manuscript is an illustrated commissione issued to Francesco Barbarigo by the Venetian doge Leonardo Loredan (r. 1501-1521) in 1515. The text concerns Barbarigo's duties and rights as podestà (civil administrator) and captain of the hilltop town of Feltre in Veneto, Italy.
The binding of the volume was made by the so-called 'Agnese binder', who has been tentatively identified with Bartolomeo di Giovanni da Fino (fl. 1516-1543). Other bindings by him now housed in the British Library include Add MS 20980, 20981 and 41153, and Egerton MS 755 (see Nuvolini, 'Commissioni Dogali' (2000), p. 93).
Contents:
ff. 1r-21r: Commissione of the doge Leonardo Loredan to Francesco Barbarigo as podestà and captain of Feltre.
f. 21v is ruled and unwritten.
Decoration:
A large presentation miniature, a title piece with gold display script, and a full border in colours and gold with medallions of the winged Venetian lion, and the arms of Francesco Barbarigo in a landscape (f. 1r). Plain initials in red or blue. Cadels.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002049234", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 3403: Commissione of the doge Leonardo Loredan to Francesco Barbarigo as podestà and captain of Feltre" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002049234 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 3403 : Commissione of the doge Leonardo Loredan to Francesco Barbarigo as podestà and captain of Feltre - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[3404]/040-002049234
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Italian
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1515
- End Date:
- 1515
- Date Range:
- 1515
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Parchment.
Dimensions: 230 x 165 mm (written space: 160 x 110 mm).
Foliation: ff. 21 ( + 4 unfoliated paper and 1 parchment flyleaves at the beginning + 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the end).
Script: Humanistic cursive.
Binding: Pre-1600. 16th-century binding of brown leather with gold tooling by the 'Agnese binder' (Master of Andrea Gritti), with the Harleian armorial bookplate gold-stamped on the inside upper and lower covers; marbled endpapers.
The 'Agnese binder' has been tentatively identified with Bartolomeo di Giovanni da Fino (fl. 1516-1543). Other bindings by him now housed in the British Library include Add MS 20980, 20981 and 41153, and Egerton MS 755 (see Nuvolini, 'Commissioni Dogali' (2000), p. 93).
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Venice, Italy.
Provenance:
Leonardo Loredan (r. 1501-1521), doge of Venice: inscribed, 'Data in nostro ducali palatio die xij Februarij indictionum (?)... M.D.XV' (with a notarial signature) (f. 21r).
Francesco Barbarigo (fl early 16th century), governor of Feltre: his arms (f. 1r).
Matthew de Varenne (fl. 1723/4), London bookseller and auctioneer: sold by him to Harley on 24 October 1722 (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 336).
The Harley Collection, formed by Robert Harley (b. 1661, d. 1724), 1st earl of Oxford and Mortimer, politician, and Edward Harley (b. 1689, d. 1741), 2nd earl of Oxford and Mortimer, book collector and patron of the arts, inscribed as usual by their librarian, Humfrey Wanley ‘24 die Octobris, A.D. 1722’ (f. [iv] recto).Edward Harley bequeathed the library to his widow, Henrietta Cavendish, née Holles (b. 1694, d. 1755) during her lifetime and thereafter to their daughter, Margaret Cavendish Bentinck (b. 1715, d. 1785), duchess of Portland; the manuscripts were sold by the Countess and the Duchess in 1753 to the nation for £10,000 (a fraction of their contemporary value) under the Act of Parliament that also established the British Museum; the Harley manuscripts form one of the foundation collections of the British Library.
- Information About Copies:
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Select digital coverage available for this manuscript; see the Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts, https://bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/.
- Publications:
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A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), III (1808), no. 3403.
The Diary of Humfrey Wanley 1715-1726, ed. by Cyril Ernest Wright and Ruth C. Wright, 2 vols (London: Bibliographical Society, 1966), I: 1715-1723, p. 167 n. 1.
Cyril Ernest Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), pp. 63, 336.
Andrew G. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts c. 700-1600 in The Department of Manuscripts: The British Library, 2 vols (London: British Library, 1979), no. 750.
Laura Nuvoloni, 'Commissioni Dogali: Venetian Bookbindings in the British Library', in For the Love of the Binding: Studies in Bookbinding History presented to Mirjam Foot, ed. by D. Pearson (London: British Museum, 2000), pp. 90-91, pl. 10.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Barbarigo, Francesco, Governor of Feltre, fl early 16th century
Loredan, Leonardo, Venetian doge, 1436-1521
Varenne, Matthew de, London bookseller and auctioneer, fl 1723 - Places:
- Venice, Italy